A39669:1580
The Method of Grace
The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mystery of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...The method of grace, in bringing home the eternal redemption contrived by the Father, and accomplished by the Son through the effectual application of the spirit unto God's elect, being the second part of Gospel redemption : wherein the great mysterie of our union and communion with Christ is opened and applied, unbelievers invited, false pretenders convicted, every mans claim to Christ examined, and the misery of Christless persons discovered and bewailed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed by M. White for Francis Tyton, 1681
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Inference 4.
If the riches of grace be thus manifested in the pardon of sin, 1how vile an abuse is it of the grace of God to take the more liberty to sin, because grace abounds in the pardon of it!
- 1Inference 4.
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid, Rom. 6. 1, 2. Will no cheaper stuff than the grace of God serve to make a cloak for sin? O vile abuse of the most excellent thing in the whole world! did Christ shed his blood to expiate our guilt, and dare we make that a plea to extenuate our guilt? God forbid.
If it be intolerable ingratitude among men to requite good with evil, sure that sin must want a name bad enough to express it, which puts the greatest dishonour upon God for the greatest mercy that ever was given by God to the world: there is mercy with thee (saith the Psalmist) that thou mayest be feared, not that thou mayest be the more abused,